MOSCOW — Alexander Remnev sits on a ledge atop an office tower downtown. He and his friends use no mountain-climbing gear, no harnesses or ropes when skywalking. They wear everyday clothes to make the point that they “are just ordinary guys like you and me and not some boring professionals.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexander Remnev

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MOSCOW — The view down from one of the Seven Sisters skyscrapers.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexander Remnev

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MOSCOW — Alexei Nazarov enjoys a sunset view from the top of one of the Seven Sisters.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Artyom Lakhtionov

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MOSCOW — Vitaly Raskalov climbs the monument to Peter the Great over the Moscow River.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexander Remnev

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MOSCOW — On top of the Monarch business complex tower.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexander Remnev

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MOSCOW — A skywalker climbs the star that crowns the spire of a skyscraper in Kudrinskaya Square.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexei Nazarov

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MOSCOW — A skywalker, a.k.a. "roofer," stands on top of a house.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexei Nazarov

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — The view from the highest point of the bridge that links the far-eastern port of Vladivostok with the island of Russky. Alexei Nazarov, 20, a computer student, hitchhiked thousands of miles last summer, a journey that took him a month and a half, to climb the new bridge. “I climbed that bridge and sat on top of it as if I had fulfilled the goal of my life,” Nazarov said. “But then I came down and boarded a plane and came back to Moscow and understood that I just climbed another bridge, and started thinking about new exploits.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexei Nazarov

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KIEV, Ukraine — Taking in a new city.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Artyom Lakhtionov

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KIEV, Ukraine — Artyom Lakhtionov soaks in the experience on top of a pedestrian overpass above the Dnieper River.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Alexei Nazarov

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